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These are the Batmen we deserve.

Some of these new-found worlds are so fantastic, it's hard to believe they actually exist.

Fantasy and sci-fi television has some great LGBTQ+ representation—but progress still needs to be made.

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Get to know one of the best games ever created.

"There’s a lot to be told from their perspective, and I don’t know if that ever will happen. There might be stories they’ll just be taking with them to their graves."

Sometimes, humans see what we want to see.

Octavia Butler scholar Adrienne Brown finds that things today are eerily similar to the apocalyptic world imagined within Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

The final frontier is often far from friendly.

From The Borg in Star Trek to the bugs in Empire of the Ants, sci-fi is full of sinister hive minds. But is that scary reputation justified?

An objective and definitive list.

We like big robots and we cannot lie.

These radical ladies are getting it done.

Military science fiction doesn’t have to just be about space battles and glory. It can examine why we, as a culture, choose to make war—and how we can change.

Andrew Kessler details the 90 nail-biting, but incredible, days he spent with the Phoenix Mars Mission in 2008.

Want to get into this Star Wars thing, but don't know where to start? The Portalist has got your back.

While visiting the Petit Trianon in 1901, two scholarly women came face to face with visions they could not explain.

The Walking Dead TV series has diverged from its source material in some major ways.

A modern-day space race between private companies is heating up to send humans into deep space.